Race Evaluation
BATONA 500: Red
piutepro
| 1. | Cool running on the white leg, while memorizing the next leg. | ||||||
| 2. | Trail to road, fire break trail to slight climb, over the hill into the reentrant. | ||||||
| 3. | +00:30 | Straight on line, hit trail intersection. Up on trail, through green in opening to reentrant. I am glad I can read the details today, the contours are less vague, since 2 or 3 are bunched together. Check the map a few times too much to be save. | |||||
| 4. | With an eye on the compass to trail, see ridge, wonder about the funny place for control on a trail piece. | ||||||
| 5. | +00:15 | Straight, cautious because the small negative contours can be tricky. End up 50m south of control, correct quickly. | |||||
| 6. | +01:00 | Leave control too fast, get to trail intersection, go through a directional confusion until I pick the correct one. Straight on compass would be faster. | |||||
| 7. | To trail intersection, past green, cut to control. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:30 | Stay on line, follow the ditch (also a trail), cross road, cut through the white open. Vague terrain, hit trail, spend time on making sure where I am. Get to intersection, over hill to control. Nervous along the way, with more self-confidence would come more speed. | |||||
| 9. | +00:30 | Out to road and back in. Not sure if it was as fast as I thought. | |||||
| 10. | +02:00 | Cut to trail intersection, directional problem (don't know why I struggle this again), pick wrong trail, back and to the correct one. At least I realize that I am temporarily brain-empty, maybe the fast running does this to me. I am careful as I approach control, hit it right on. | |||||
| 11. | Straight on the line, see large reentrant, trail on top of ridge and cut to control. | ||||||
| 12. | +00:20 | On line to jeep trail, cross to trail in reentrant, go straight past the green, see another control, know it is not mine. | |||||
| 13. | +00:15 | Cross road, follow bottom of hill then climb. Staying west of green would have made it faster. | |||||
| 14. | +01:00 | Out to road. Move well there. Too well, I overrun the small trail, see the fallen trees, run in to control. See Kissy leaving the control. | |||||
| 15. | +00:20 | Lots of nothing and fallen trees. Drift somewhat north before correcting to the green patches. | |||||
| 16. | +02:00 | Straight to road, on compass to trail, drift to trail south of Y, go to wrong spur, have a while to figure the parallel error, Kissy was faster to correct. Stupid in competition error. | |||||
| 17. | To road intersection, to fence, follow it, cut in going north, ignore the ditch jiggles. Catch up with Kissy. | ||||||
| 18. | +00:30 | Follow the fence, cut road, careful in vague reentrants, right on to control, somewhat slowed by precision. | |||||
| 19. | I move fast, get ahead and carefully cross the plain white to the ditch. | ||||||
| 20. | +03:00 | To road. Think I can cross straight. No good. Boom. Slow running. Hit trail, but I am not sure if it is the ditch/trail fragment. Turn slightly north. Hit asphalt road at intersection. Rip off my head, scratch it, too. Can't believe I am back here. Jog along. Lost contact. See Sergej G. behind me, let him catch up. Seems I am right on my way to #20. | |||||
| 21. | Nothing to lose. I race Sergej, suddenly energized from the easy jog before. He looks puzzled at my rocket start. Good, at least I can push him to speed. Straight to road, up on trail to small trail to control. | ||||||
| 22. | Keep pushing hard, can barely read the map. Straight, somewhat stuck in downfall along the spur above control. Sergej moves ahead before the control. Young legs, faster. | ||||||
| F. | Run. I enjoyed the last few controls, the speed and the sudden surge of energy. |
Total Time Lost - 00:12:10